Southwest Airlines apologizes over cleavage skirmish

A Southwest Airlines passenger on a flight from Las Vegas to New York was told she had to get off the plane for inappropriate cleavage. She refused. After the flight, she reached out to the website Jezebel to help get her story out. She got herself a refund and an apology.

She boarded a flight from Las Vegas to New York early June 5 and said she did not button up because, she told Jezebel: “I didn’t want to let the representative’s Big Feelings about my breasts change the way I intended to board my flight,” she explained. “And lo and behold, the plane didn’t fall out of the sky…my cleavage did not interfere with the plane’s ability to function properly.”

Southwest spokesperson Christi McNeill told us that the company offered Avital an apology and a refund “as a gesture of goodwill,” but that their Contract of Carriageallows them to refuse to transport a customer whose clothing is lewd, obscene, or patently offensive.

So you make the call — is Avital’s outfit too inappropriate for a Southwest flight?